ardour - the new digital audio workstation - includes rudimentary support to display video-timelines. - For this to work the video-data needs to be supplied by a 3rd-party application via TCP-socket, hence the name: Image Compositor Socket.

Back in 2004/2005 aniComp from the CMT, Glasgow Animatics-server was supported in Ardour-0.99; but since then
ardour-2.X ICS code has been mostly unmaintained.

I took to code a video-server that implements the ICS protocol to communicate with ardour and manages EDL video-sessions. This wiki page documents information regarding interoperability and interaction with ardour.